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1 Auditee : Gallant Jewelry Audit Date From : 26/04/2018 Audit Date To : 27/04/2018 Expiry Date of the Audit : Auditing Company : Auditor s Name(s) : Auditing Branch (if applicable) : Please refer to the producer profile in the amfori BSCI platform Intertek Balaso Malagave(Lead), Parul Jaglan Intertek India This is an extract of the on line Audit Report.The complete report is available in the amfori BSCI Platform. Access for entitled users only. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any, means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the amfori consent. This is an extract of the amfori BSCI Audit Report, which is available in the amfori BSCI Platform. amfori, The English version is the legally binding One. Page 1/17

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3 Audit Details Audit Range : Full Audit Follow-up Audit Audit Scope : Main Auditee Main Auditee & Farms Audit Environment : Industrial Agricultural Audit Announcement : Fully-Announced Fully-Unannounced Semi-Announced Random Unannounced Check (RUC) : Audit extent (if applicable) : Audit interferences or contingencies (if applicable) : No none none Overall rating : B Need of follow-up : If YES, by : Rating per Performance Area (PA) PA 1 PA 2 PA 3 PA 4 PA 5 PA 6 PA 7 PA 8 PA 9 PA 10 PA 11 PA 12 PA 13 C A A A B A A A A A A B A Executive summary of audit report Facility is located in an industrial area of Jaipur city and is about 5 km away from city airport. This facility was established in 2000 at other location and shifted at existing location in Facility is into manufacturing and exporting of gems and jewelry items for their overseas customers. Facility operated in one building comprising ground, first and second floor. Total plot area of the facility is about 2000 square meters and covered area is about 3000 square meters. Ground floor has office, wax department, sampling and packing. First floor has filing, setting, polishing, plating and quality control. Second floor has Reverse Osmosis plant, dining area, laundry room and rest room. Apart from that, facility has one utility block which has electrical meter room, one diesel generator set room, transformer room. Effluent Treatment Plant and air compressors are installed on ground floor corridor area. Main equipment / machinery used by facility are cutting machines, setting machines, Wire rolling machines, Plating plant, Polishing machines. Periphery area has Diesel Generator sets. Compressors and dust collection system are located on the top floor. The main production processes carried out in the facility are as below, Designing - Model Making - Mould Cutting - Waxing - Investment Mixing - Metal Casting - Filing-Pre-Polish-Stone Setting - Final Polish - Cleaning/Steaming/Ultrasonic - Quality Control-Final Packing & Dispatch. There was non-compliance observed in the area of PA 1, PA 2, PA 5, PA 7, PA 12 & PA 13. Please refer to Finding Report section. The main auditee fulfils the requirement of these performance areas as below: Performance area 1: Social Management System and Cascade Effect Performance area 2: Workers Involvement and Protection Performance area 3: The rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining: Employees are free to join any union or association and management does not interfere or restrict workers choice of joining or forming any union or association. The facility does not have labor union or collective bargaining agreement including works committee. According to interview with workers' representative, there was no discriminatory treatment from factory management. All grievances are handles through open door policy and suggestion box with works committee. No serious concerns were raised by the employees during interview. The facility did not face any strikes or stoppage at work by the employees since last year. Performance area 4: No Discrimination: The facility has established written social procedures including anti-discrimination. Employees have been well trained on the procedures and there was no discrimination in hiring, compensation, access to training, promotion, termination or retirement based on race, caste, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, union membership or political affiliation. No discrimination in any aspect according to interviews. Employees also confirmed that they are treated equally and received wage at fair and appropriate rate in accordance with the qualification and experience. The treatment from the facility management was found non-discriminatory. No serious concerns were raised by the employees during interview. Performance area 5: Fair Remuneration Page 4/17

4 Performance Area 6: Decent Working Hours: The facility has established their policy on working hour to ensure the correct documentation of working hours. The facility s policy on working hours and overtime hours are communicated to all their employees during induction training and through regular training. The working hours of the facility are also posted on the notice board. 25 employees were interviewed and facility maintains bio metric time recording system for recording IN/OUT time of all company employees. For contract employees, facility has maintained manual card where IN and OUT timings are recorded on regular basis. From the review of records, it was noted that the facility operates on a 48-hour work week basis and six days per week. The employees of the facility work for six (6) days in a week and in one shift. The facility has provided one day off in a week (7 days) usually on Sunday. It was noted through review of documents, interaction with the facility management that the facility has neither union nor collective bargaining agreements. It was noted through review of documents that overtime hours performed by the employees was found within the legal limit of 02 hours per day, 12 hours per week and 50 hours per quarter. Performance area 7: Occupational Health and Safety Performance area 8: No Child Labour: The facility does not engage in or support the issue of child and young labour. Applicants are requested to present original birth certificate for age verification. Age of youngest employee found in the facility is 21 years completed. The facility was found meeting to the local, national and international labour law requirement with regard to child labour. The facility is not employing any apprentices. The minimum hiring age policy of facility was 18 years old. Based on facility tour and personnel file review, all employees were above the age required by local law. There was neither child labor nor suspected young employee found. Child remediation procedure was established. The facility has displayed their child labor policy on the notice board. It was further noted through facility tour, physical appearance of the employees, interviews with the employees that the facility has not engaged any young employees/children s or child labor. It was noted through review of documents that the facility has maintained copy of age proof for 25 out of 25 samples. Performance area 9: Special protection for young workers All employees were above the age required by local law. The hiring age policy of the facility was 18 years old and above. During the facility tour, no young employee was found engaged by the facility. Based on the employee interview, they confirmed that there was no employee whose age was less than 18 years old working in the facility. The youngest employee found was 23 years old. The copies of age documents such as Adhar (Unique Identification) Card and PAN card, which is kept in each personnel file. Performance area 10: No Precarious Employment There was no evidence of any precarious employment in the facility. The facility engages employees based on recognized and documented employment relationships. The facility has issued appointment letters to all the employees in local language. The appointment letter contained understandable information about the employment conditions and benefits. Performance area 11: No Bonded Labor The facility does not hold original documents belonging to employees such as passports, Voter s Identification card, Driving License, original birth certificate or any other documents as applicable by law. The facility issues payment of salaries and wages directly to the employees by bank transfer. Duties and responsibilities of their security guards assigned at the facility that limits security tasks to normal security matters such as the protection of the company property and personnel security. Overtime work shall be rendered only under extreme cases or urgent business needs and on voluntary basis. The facility allows the employees to report in writing to management through the HR staff any case or allegation of forced labor or drop their complaints in complaint / suggestion box located at main entrance as a means to air their allegation. Since last year, no complaints or violations were raised by the employees against this clause. From the interview with the employees, interaction with the facility management, review of documents, it was noted that employees are working voluntarily and during the facility tour, employees did not appear to be under pressure. The facility does not limit the employee s freedom. Employees are free to leave the work place and manage their own time while not on duty. If employees are choose to quit their job, they are free to do so, as long as they are fulfilled their obligations agreed under their appointment letter or standing order of the facility. Further, it was also noted through interaction with the facility management that there is no prison labor engaged by the facility. Performance area 12: Protection of the Environment Performance area 13: Ethical Business Behavior Page 5/17

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